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...fight against terrorism is far from over. Since the coup, 1,700 leftist guerrillas and 124 soldiers and police have died in what the military calls "the dirty war." The government has virtu ally wiped out one major terrorist group, the leftist Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (E.R.P.). The other large guerrilla network is the Montoneros, who are also leftists with Peronist sympathies; most of their top leaders have been killed or captured, but they can still launch spectacular bombings, kidnapings and murders. One Shootout last week took place at Buenos Aires' evening rush hour, near the Supreme...
...cast in April and May to teach children the meaning of sibling rivalry. "Big Bird represents the child viewer," explains Dakota's mother, Buffy Sainte-Marie, 36, a regular Sesame Street guest. "He and I were friends. I even took him to New Mexico's Taos Indian pueblo to tape a show. Now suddenly here's my baby and my husband, Sheldon Wolfchild. Big Bird feels in the way." The singer originally went on the show to teach its 8 million viewers something about her own Cree culture and to show that "Indians say more than...
...bring back exiled Dictator Juan Domingo Perón. The two main factions: 1) the Montoneros (bush fighters), who originally supported Perón but turned increasingly leftward and broke away after his return to power in 1973; and 2) the smaller ERP (Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, or People's Revolutionary Army), a Cuban-influenced outfit with Trotskyite ties...
...most intense skirmishing took place in the late 1960s. In 1966, six American soldiers were killed in a North Korean ambush near Panmunjom. In 1968-the year the U.S. warship Pueblo was seized by North Korea while on a reconnaissance mission-there were 760 incidents in the DMZ, including 356 outbreaks of shooting, with a total of 500 deaths on both sides. In the past 2½ years, however, the zone has been relatively quiet. Until last week, there had been no American deaths since November 1974. In the interim, the most serious injury was suffered by Major Darryl Henderson...
Past cardinals in a reviewing stand and down Philadelphia's Independence Mall, strode a platoon of nuns to the tune of When the Saints Go Marching In. In the swelling parade came cheerleaders leading parochial-school bands, chanting Pueblo Indians in full feathered regalia and flag-waving marchers representing each of Pennsylvania's 1,486 Roman Catholic parishes. The 41st International Eucharistic Congress, one of the largest religious spectacles in U.S. history, was under...